Alain Froment

Amazing Anatomy The Human Body and Evolution

A remarkable description of the human body, as seen through the history and evolution of the many living species that humans evolved from

Michel Billiard

A Guide to Sleep

Jean Adès, Michel Lejoyeux

Give Me More! Gambling, Sex, Work, Money

Do we live in an age of addictions? Some pass their time in the office, to the detriment of their family life. Others blow their budget on useless and spontaneous buys. Others still crave thrills and sensations, obtained through participating in extreme sports. But is there a link between a drug addict and a person addicted to shopping, sex or work? Are these new dependencies increasingly frequent, symptomatic of our society? Where does pleasure stop and danger begin? Jean Adès is professor of medicine. Professor Michael Lejoyeux is a psychiatrist.

Marc Jeannerod

The Volitional Brain

Volition lies at the heart of human reality. It is the manifestation of our inner self, and plays an active part in the implementation of our intentions, desires and projects...

Françoise Héritier

Male/Female II Dissolving the Hierarchy

Raymond Cahn

The End of the Couch ?

Why do psychoanalysts refuse to review their methods, while simultaneously recognising that life-styles have evolved and that new pathologies have come into existence? Why, for example, do they remain devoted to the psychoanalyst’s couch, while realising that certain “cures” are at a dead-end? This is a controversial work on the challenges facing psychoanalysis — a field that had its hour of glory in the 1960s but has since been somewhat discredited. Raymond Cahn is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.

Jacques Friedel

A Family of Scientists

Sylvie Schweitzer

Women Have Always Worked A History of Working Women in the 19th Century

For women, the victory of recent years is one of empowerment in their professional lives: they now have the means to compete with men in every field. Yet society’s traditional image of what is a male or female profession remains very powerful. In 2001, French women had managed to enter professions that were previously practically closed to them but French men are still reluctant to enter traditionally female professions. This book reviews two centuries of women’s work. It shows that women have always worked — but not everywhere. Women’s access to increasingly “prized” jobs goes hand in hand with economic and global development.